Post your sonnet on the tab page after reading and studying Shakespeare's sonnet. Look below to find the rubric for the assignment.

The Elizabethan Sonnet Note Taking Page

Sonnet #18 by William Shakespeare .
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Interpret.
How many lines?
How many syllables per line?
What is the rhyme scheme? ababcdcdefefgg
Write your own on a topic of your interest and post on the wiki.



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When you write yours, pick an appropriate topic, include 14 lines, rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg, and 10 syllables per line.

Example!

selle96 May 29, 2012
I haven't written a sonnet before.
I have no idea what I could say.
Do I speak of love for those I adore?
Or dream of the ocean breeze by the bay?
Or maybe I'll just simply write of things
That are constantly sitting in my mind.
Like how pretty it is when Lauryn sings,
Or my mom, comfort in her words I find.
The way the stars shine near full moon's light,
Makes a young girl wish and dream like a fool.
The ridiculousness when brothers fight,
Is the worst of any sort of real duel.
Life is too short for living in regret,
So make up, play nice, forgive, and forget.